Harlequin Special #8

Rating:
Summary: reprints but well worth it!!
Review: Anne Stuart is one of my favourite writers, has been since I picked up To Love a Dark Lord and then Moonrise. She is the Queen of the Gamma Rogue, blackhearted heroes with even blacker souls. She can make these bad boys so compelling so that you would think Robert Palmer wrote SIMPLY IRRESISTIBLE about them!!

Her tale - Kissing Frosty - is a much lighter hearted Stuart showing she is a deft hand with humour. Written in 1996 is it a holiday tale I am so glad they reprinted. Megan McGraw is tired of the nomad life and wants a man, a home and a baby. She runs a healthful restaurant in a small town called Waston's Hole, and next to her is Nadjia, running a new age shop. They are facing eviction from their shops because the owner of the building wants to put in a high priced shopping complex. So on the night of the Winter Solstice, Meggie challenges Nadjia to summon up her true love. They use the giant snowman as a poppet, pinned the picture of the current heartthrob actor, and conjure their spell. And much to Megan's surprise, 5 days later the actor turns at her bean sprout restaurant!! Only problem, he is accompanied by John James O'leary, a blackheaded screenwriter that sends her temper and her pulse in orbit. It is a fun tale that will have you howling out loud. I mean with lines like "he was using his mouth like an instrument of the devil, seducing her into a brainless mass of bean sprouts marching toward destruction. Oh, Lord, and she wanted to go!!" Stuart keeps this one rolling. I am only sorry it was so short.

The much longer THE BOSS, THE BABY AND THE BRIDE is a reprint of Day Leclaire's 1994 short story. Reed Harding is hard on secretaries, going through 12 in less than six month. But suddenly he has Angie (Angel?) Makepeace has become secretary number thirteen, and soon begins to take over his life - after all she is his guardian angel!! It is a funny story that charms you as well.

Rating:
Summary: reprints but well worth it!!
Review: Anne Stuart is one of my favourite writers, has been since I picked up To Love a Dark Lord and then Moonrise. She is the Queen of the Gamma Rogue, blackhearted heroes with even blacker souls. She can make these bad boys so compelling so that you would think Robert Palmer wrote SIMPLY IRRESISTIBLE about them!!

Her tale - Kissing Frosty - is a much lighter hearted Stuart showing she is a deft hand with humour. Written in 1996 is it a holiday tale I am so glad they reprinted. Megan McGraw is tired of the nomad life and wants a man, a home and a baby. She runs a healthful restaurant in a small town called Waston's Hole, and next to her is Nadjia, running a new age shop. They are facing eviction from their shops because the owner of the building wants to put in a high priced shopping complex. So on the night of the Winter Solstice, Meggie challenges Nadjia to summon up her true love. They use the giant snowman as a poppet, pinned the picture of the current heartthrob actor, and conjure their spell. And much to Megan's surprise, 5 days later the actor turns at her bean sprout restaurant!! Only problem, he is accompanied by John James O'leary, a blackheaded screenwriter that sends her temper and her pulse in orbit. It is a fun tale that will have you howling out loud. I mean with lines like "he was using his mouth like an instrument of the devil, seducing her into a brainless mass of bean sprouts marching toward destruction. Oh, Lord, and she wanted to go!!" Stuart keeps this one rolling. I am only sorry it was so short.

The much longer THE BOSS, THE BABY AND THE BRIDE is a reprint of Day Leclaire's 1994 short story. Reed Harding is hard on secretaries, going through 12 in less than six month. But suddenly he has Angie (Angel?) Makepeace has become secretary number thirteen, and soon begins to take over his life - after all she is his guardian angel!! It is a funny story that charms you as well.